Maybe I'm making mistake assuming that "theory" here means
normative/scientific theory, something that strives to provide
predictions in sustainable and repeatable fashion. Theories that predict
past are useless, and what someone feels the future should be and steps
to achieve that is, in my mind, ideology and not a theory.

There is a big difference: a theory can be wrong, ideology cannot. The
prevailing slippery allusions to the scientific meaning of theory seem
intentional.

On 7/19/16, 21:45, Alex Foti wrote:

well this is about falsificationism in social theory - and it pretty
much applies to any theory in social science - be it modernization
functionalism underdevelopment etc